Railway-car cuspidor.



1.1 MULDOON.

RAILWAY CAR CUSPIDOR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 21,1915.

1,173,729. Patented Feb.;29,1916.

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JOHN J. MULDOON, OF RQCHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OE ONE-THIRD BERNARDINO VIAPRADRE AND ONE-THIRD ROCHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

T MARCUS A. EPETRELL, BOTH 0E RAILWAY-GAE CUSPIDOR.

Application 'filefi June 21,

. To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that 1, JOHN J. MULoooN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Rochester, in the county of Beaver and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Car Cuspidors, of which the following is a specification.

The primary object of this invention is to provide a permanent cuspidor for railway cars, the only exposed portion thereof being its perforate top which is preferably slightly depressed beneath the floor surface, thereby facilitating the confining of expectorations to such perforate top and as far as possible preventing the same from spreading over the floor.

A further purpose is to provide improved means for discharging the contents of the cuspidor and at the same time maintain the latter substantially closed and thereby avoid objectionable drafts.

The discharging mechanism may be actuated by a current wheel which will be propelled automatically when the car is in motion, or the same may be driven by suitable gearing extending to a rotating part of the car structure, nct shown.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in top plan of the improved cuspidor in position in a railway car floor. Figs. 2 and 3 are, respectively, side and end elevations of the same, the floor being shown in section. Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal section on line 4-4 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 5 is a vertical cross-section on line 5-5 of Fig. 4.

Referring to the drawings, 2 designates a railway car floor having opening 3 formed therethrough, the walls of the opening being flanged at 4.

5 designates a box-like receptacle which is open and flanged outwardly around its upper edge at 6 to fit and be supported by floor flange 4. WVith the receptacle in positlon, flange 6 is slightly lower than the top surface of the floor, thereby leaving a de pression 2 in the floor above the receptacle. Removably fitting within the flanged upper portion of the receptacle is top or cover 7 having perforations or passages 8 which may be of grate-like or any other desired form to facilitate passage of expectorations into the receptacle. The side walls 9 of the receptacle converge downwardly, and the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 29,- T5316 1915. Serial No. 35,346.

same is true of the end walls 10, so that all matter dropping through the rected toward the means for removing the same which will now be described.

The open lower portion of the receptacle is formed with bearings 11 having the re movable bottom cap portions 12 for confining the spindles 13 and 13 projecting from opposite ends of the discharging device 14. The latter is preferably of spool form, the central portion consisting of the double cone 15, the extremities of which terminate in the contracted neck portions 16, and at the outer sides of the latter are the single cone portions 17. Surfaces 17 are preferably in the plane of and form continuations of end walls 10. The side and end walls of the receptacle are appropriately slotted or recessed to fit closely around the circular rotating part 14, the arrangement being preferably such that the lower edges 9" of walls .9'have a substantially scraping action on double cone 15, keeping the latter clean and tending to work all matter deposited there on down into the neck portions 16.

Secured to the rotating discharging device in each of neck portions 16 is a series of radially projecting blade-like pins 18 which move through slots 19 in-walls 9 and dis charge therethrough all matter that enters the receptacle from above, that is, all fluid or semi-fluid matter and such solids as may be small enough to pass out or may be broken up by the action of pins 18. The double cone 15 is of such diameter as to provide suflicient slope to readily direct the matter dropping thereon into one or the other of necks 16, and the same is true of matter that may drop or drip on the sloping walls of the receptacle, so that with part 14 rotating the cuspidor will be maintained empty and comparatively clean.

Part 14 may be variously rotated, as by a propeller wheel 20 secured to spindle 13 which will be so arranged as to be driven by the air draft when the car is in motion. A sheave 21 on the spindle may be geared to a motor, or to a rotating part of the car, for instance one of the axles. The discharging mechanism may be readily removed by detaching bearing caps 12 for the purpose of flushing out the receptacle or for making repairs.

WVhile the improved device is designed grating is diprimarily for use in railway cars, it may be utilized either in whole or in part in the floors of buildings. Being located inthe floor andpreferably sunk beneath its surface, it is entirely out of the way and is not sub ect to being upset or to injury to which.

a portable cuspidor is exposed.

I claim: V

1. The combination of a, railway car floor, a spittle receiving receptacle beneath the floor having a perforate top exposed in the floor, movable means operative within the receptacle for discharging the contents thereof, and a wind wheel at the exterior, of the car and operatively connected. to said means for actuating the-same;

2. The combination of a railway car floor,

A a spittle receptacle" mounted therein, a discharging device rotatable within the receptacle and having a spindle projecting at the exterior of the car, and .a wind wheel mounted on the spindle.

3. A spittle receptacleopen'at thetop and having downwardly converging walls, a rotatable device adapted to receive matter directed thereon by the sloping walls anddisl. chargesame from thereceptacle, and a wind wheel. at the exterior of the car tively connected to said 'device, 4. A spittle receptacle open at the t0p, a

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device rotatably mounted in the receptacle and having cone-like'faces terminating in contracted neckportions, and outletsfor said neck portions.

5. A spittle receptacle open' at thetop, a

device rotatably mounted in the receptacle with portionsof the device extending to the exterior thereof and with the walls of the receptacle shaped to closely fit therotating device, and ejecting pins projecting from the device and with slots inthereceptacle walls through which the; pins are adaptedto pass;

6. A spittle receptacle open at the top, a device rotatably mounted in the receptacle with portions of the, device extending to-the exterior thereof and withthe walls of the receptacle shaped' to closely lit the rotating device, the device having a central double cone-like portion and reversely disposed end cone-like portions with the central and end cone portions uniting in contracted necklikeparts, and pins proj ectiug radially from' theneck-like parts with the Wallsof the receptacle slotted for the passage of said pins;

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses;

Witnesses:

D. H. KENNEDY, J. H. SIMMONS, Sr, 7

JOHN .1. MULDOQNQ i Commissioner of Patents; 

